Editing 1944 (section)

===May===
[[File:Leon Kozłowski.PNG|100px|thumb|[[Leon Kozłowski]]]]
[[File:Edel Quinn.png|100px|thumb|[[Edel Quinn]]]]
[[File:Патриарх Сергий.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Patriarch Sergius of Moscow]]]]
[[File:Thomas Curtis.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Thomas Curtis (athlete)|Thomas Curtis]]]]
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Bertha Benz]], German automotive pioneer, wife and business partner of automobile inventor Karl Benz (b. [[1849]])
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[William Ledyard Rodgers]], American admiral and military and naval historian (b. [[1860]])
* [[May 11]] &ndash; [[Leon Kozłowski]], Polish archaeologist and politician, 25th [[Prime Minister of Poland]] (b. [[1892]])
* [[May 12]]
** [[Max Brand]], American author (b. [[1892]])
** [[Harold Lowe]], British sailor, 5th officer of the [[RMS Titanic|RMS ''Titanic'']] (b. [[1882]])
** [[Arthur Quiller-Couch]], British writer and academic (b. [[1863]])
** [[Edel Quinn]], Irish [[Roman Catholic]] laywoman, missionary and venerable (b. [[1907]])
* [[May 15]] &ndash; Patriarch [[Patriarch Sergius of Moscow|Sergius I]] (b. [[1867]])
* [[May 16]]
** [[George Ade]], American author (b. [[1866]])
** [[Filip Mișea]], Aromanian activist, physician and politician (b. 1873)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://opiniabuzau.ro/celebritati-medicale-buzoiene/|title=Celebrități medicale buzoiene / Doctor Mișea Filip, creatorul secției de contagioase a Spitalului Gârlași|first=Anghel C.|last=Tudor|newspaper=Opinia Buzău|date=10 April 2019|language=ro}}</ref>
* [[May 17]] &ndash; [[Milena Jesenská]], Czechoslovakian journalist, writer, editor and translator (b. [[1896]])
* [[May 20]]
** [[Fraser Barron]], New Zealand bomber pilot during WWII (b. [[1921]])
** [[Eugenio Colorni]], Italian philosopher and activist (b. [[1909]])
** [[Vincent Rose]], American musician and band leader (b. [[1880]])
* [[May 21]]
**[[Edmund Mortimer (actor)|Edmund Mortimer]], American actor and director (b. [[1874]])
**[[Li Jiayu]], Chinese general of the [[National Revolutionary Army]] (b. [[1892]])
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Thomas Curtis (athlete)|Thomas Curtis]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1873]])
* [[May 24]]
** [[Inigo Campioni]], Italian admiral (executed) (b. [[1878]])
** [[Matsuji Ijuin]], Japanese admiral (killed in action) (b. [[1893]])
** [[Luigi Mascherpa]], Italian admiral (executed) (b. [[1893]])
** [[Harold Bell Wright]], American writer (b. [[1872]])
* [[May 25]] &ndash; [[Clark Daniel Stearns]], 9th [[Governor of American Samoa]] (b. [[1870]])
* [[May 30]]
** Patriarch [[Mesrob I Naroyan of Constantinople]] (b. [[1875]])
** [[Jessie Ralph]], American actress (b. [[1864]])